It’s ok, we have a constitutional backup for that.
Good comment!
I’m especially fond of your 1st Amendement. The U.S. is probably the only country that has real free speech enshrined into its constitution.
Frankly, I have whipped myself to go voting during the past several elections to make such a choice. Voting for the one I deemed was “the least worst choice”. Unsurprisingly I have ended up voting for a bad one at the end and no wonder things would go downhill as they have done.
Now once and for all I have pledged to myself ( a pledge broken many times before) that I am done with this mockery of elections. I won’t be legitimizing an economic-politic system in whose ideological framework I don’t believe by casting my vote. To tell you the truth, I don’t believe in the idea of sovereign national politic entities, so called states, when the overarching set of rules to play by is dictated by the few who owns and controls the material resources of the planet.
If I could I would give up my citizenship altogether. But seeing as is now the state of the world, I would practically be an outlaw and prey to whatever abuse and injustice. So, sadly for me, and ironically, I have to “subject” myself to an organization I don’t believe and have no faith in.
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Well, i’d agree with that about a year ago, but for how things are looking now:
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Freedom of speech in most important questions is fallen (and i mean on a mass-media level, country level, sure there are a lot of places still where you can speak whatever you want, but it doesn’t reach any “consensus” or “news” type of audience at least yet).
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Mainstream media / social media…well you know.
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Not all, but a lot of states local government / courts are just partisan corrupt kindergarten who afraid of their own shadow, let alone some serious decisions. And explicitly doesn’t follow constitution in a lot of cases, without following any consequences might i add.
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Supreme court…No comments on that lately, they of all people seems to forgot about constitutional backup
Their only duty was ever to just check if “X is following constitution” in key political questions…They managed to fail at that lately.
So in that situation…I mean constitution theoretically has a lot of mechanisms, but what about politicians having balls to actually follow it?
That’s extremely unlikely.
I think that constitution will probably be subverted and de-legitimized next years, unless people would actually stand for it’s defense, but again…At the very least it won’t be nice.
P.S. Don’t get me wrong US constitution is best document on our planet so far, but i lived / live in countries where people know that constitution is just a paper if it’s not backed up by anything and anyone at some important moments of time.
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The bigger government gets, the more exponentially true that gets. And the fact that the citizens are so beyond scared by the power of only one person, tells me just how big it has gotten. It was never intended to work that way.
Freedom of speech would allow them to say or censor whatever they want. That’s freedom, they are just so overly loud and people aren’t willing to think for themselves anymore or are just too lazy, they just want to be told by the media. Journalism is dieing.
The school system is failing. Civics classes are failing. We’re failing to teach the next generation. When my parents were growing up they were told they could be astronauts and to get outside and play with each other. Kids today are told to stay home and be safe and talk to friends on filtered media platforms.
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It won’t be nice. Freedom isn’t free though. And if we start messing with the constitution, the house falls. You can’t piece out the foundation of a house without catastrophic effects.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) “Have the courage to use your own understanding,” is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
(Immanuel Kant)
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Indeed man, indeed…
I’m just afraid it’s exactly what will happen pretty soon, up until now almost nobody gave a crap about how catastrophic anything can go before making some insane decisions by throwing gas canister in fire of “mostly peaceful” questions of a day. 
And obviously it goes exponentially more catastrophic with each next step.
Especially knowing what’s going on is not at all entirely internal American process, and those who stand behind major corruption of all those rotten politicians are not people who’ll back down because they afraid to mess with foundations of house…pretty sure you know what i’m talking about
So far i know my freedom is as big as my wallet.
Hope it calmed down. Im sure i don’t understand but hope peace come back 
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Today, mine is as big as a bottle of milk and few other necessities.
Hoping for betterment soon.
The boom/bust cycle of empires is one of the most well documented cycles in the history of man and ends with division by socialism and revolution. The bigger the empire, the bigger the crash. We are the biggest in history so far. Unless we learn from history and change direction REALLY fast it’s going to be spectacular.
Those who will be hurt the most are people who are truly reliant on others, or want to be. Is going to be a lot of work and those who aren’t willing don’t survive revolutions. And even a lot of those who are don’t.
I’m praying for drastic change.
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Government:
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I joined the army to get away from family for my own mental and physical well being.
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More like a zombie tv series if you ask me
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This is the narrative big media are telling us in Brazil…
Double standard is insane…
CNN during BLM protests: “Mostly peaceful protests” - Burning buildings in the background…
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I tried to stay up and watch them through their procedural ceremony of counting the votes and people still objected to those states but had no signature from both house and senate until they got to Pennsylvania and then stupid happened all over again and I fell out from exhaustion. I woke up after they got to Wyoming and heard pence declare an end to the shenanigans and the look on his face was one of full disgust over how unnecessarily painful the whole day had been.
By the way I saw that some posts above were flagged and after reviewing the posts I declare they should be fully restored and plainly visible. Yes I realize that my opinion and 10$ will buy you a coffee at starbucks but having started this thread and it not having been closed down by mods I feel like it should not be partially shut down either. Trump is dangerous. This is beyond dispute. His base is radical not conservative. The malignant opportunist that he is took full advantage of the reality of the Republican Party for his own machevillain purposes. Someone died who need not have died yesterday. We still don’t know who she was or the full circumstances as to how that all came about. We only know that in total at the time of my falling asleep some 30 or so people had been arrested for curfew violations. It was a disgraceful day and I sincerely hop 45 lands in jail over this.
AND someone died. when a death occurs in the commission of a felony, those involved are charged with homicide even if they were not directly involved in that death. Charge trump with her murder.
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Nancy P. during HK protests: “A beautiful sight to behold”.
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White people came in to town and started that mess with fires and whatnot to disgrace BLM. And they were caught and arrested. That wasn’t BLM who did those things
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